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Two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid shipped by DUF6 project
LEXINTON, KY. — Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services announces that the DUF6 [depleted uranium hexafluoride] Project has safely shipped more than two million gallons of hydrofluoric acid (HF) since it began conversion operations. More than one million gallons have been shipped from each of the two plants located in Piketon, OH and Paducah, KY. The […]
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Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. No tour of Uranium Energy Corp.’s processing plant in Hobson, Tex. is complete until CEO Amir Adnani pries the top off a big black steel drum and invites you to peer inside. There, filled nearly to the brim, is an orange-yellow powder that UEC […]
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Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union Carbide’s first 20 years in nuclear energy
Union Carbide Nuclear Division, which started out as Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., operated the Atomic Energy Commission/Energy Research and Development Administration/Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, until 1984, some 40 years. The report this series of articles are documenting covered only the first 20 years. I am working […]
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DOE Issues Request for Quotations for Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Technical Services
Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for engineering and operations technical services to support the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office and the oversight of operations of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project located in Paducah KY, and Portsmouth OH. The RFQ is for a Time-and-Materials Task […]
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Nuclear energy: Radical reactors
For decades, one design has dominated nuclear reactors while potentially better options were left by the wayside. Now, the alternatives might finally have their day. Back in 2000, when Kirk Sorensen was a NASA engineer looking at nuclear-power options for future colonies on the Moon, he came across a book that described the molten-salt reactor: […]
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Going nuclear: Firm places bet on uranium company
To hear Chris Grosso talk about uranium, one might peg him for a nuclear power plant engineer. Phrases like “depleted uranium hexafluoride” roll easily off his tongue as he explains the nuclear fuel cycle in animated tones. But Grosso is a venture capitalist and financial manager who, as a partner with Thomas Kershner at Kershner, […]
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War with Iran: Real, horrific costs, but what benefits?
The Munk Debate on the question of war with Iran, to be held on Monday night in Toronto, could not be more timely. With elections finally decided in the United States and scheduled for January in Israel and July in Iran, all three countries will soon have leaders operating on new mandates. If they cannot […]
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‘High-risk components’ removed from K-25
URS/CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) has removed one of the highest risk components remaining in the East Tennessee Technology Park’s (ETTP) K-25 building, with the successful crane removal of five components known as NaF traps. The NaF traps contain a material that was used to absorb uranium from the process system and were in the […]
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Mid-2013 restart for Metropolis
The Metropolis uranium conversion plant will resume production in June 2013 when post-Fukushima safety upgrades should be completed at the facility, plant operator Honeywell announced. The plant has been offline since May. In common with all US nuclear facilities, the Metropolis plant has been subjected to a post-Fukushima safety review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission […]
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The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran
For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, various UN Security Council resolutions, the number of Iranian centrifuges, IAEA safeguards, compliance with the Non-Proliferation […]
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